from the Sunday Telegraph 17 October 2004:- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...17/wpole17.xml
Denmark causes international chill by claiming North Pole
By Julian Coman
(Filed: 17/10/2004)

Denmark has launched an extraordinary bid for ownership of the North Pole, one of the world's last untapped sources of oil
and natural gas
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Canada first claimed the North Pole in the late 1950s and an international tribunal later ruled that if no disputing claim
was made within 100 years it would become Canadian territory. But while most atlases place the region within Canadian borders, legal sovereignty has never been granted.

In Canada, the prospect of a Viking takeover of the far north has been greeted with dismay. Last week, one reader of the
Edmonton Journal wrote: "Let's fight the Danes for it. I propose we hold an ice hockey game at the site of the dispute -
the North Pole. The winners get to stay. The losers have to leave

In Resolute Bay, a tiny Inuit community on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, there is bemusement at the notion of the region
answering to Copenhagen. Angela Idlout, a receptionist at the Qausuittug Inn, the settlement's only hotel, told The Sunday
Telegraph: "If you ask me what I feel my nationality is, I will tell you that I feel Canadian, not Danish
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[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited October 17, 2004).]

You know, the true North Pole moves..right?

this ought to be interesting. I wonder how the the Canadian gov't will react. How will it be decided?

Quick send in the subs! http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/images/submarine1.jpg
Send in the seakings! http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/promocbc/promo63_seaking.jpg
Send in the peacekeepers! http://archives.cbc.ca/med/en/blue_b...s_40_br_en.jpg

Oh hell! Lets just give it to them... http://www.corfid.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[This message has been edited by stationmaster (edited October 17, 2004).]

this may not be true but early in public skool years during 'current events' i was told that NEWS stood for:

North
East
West
South

so are current events up there called 'SSSS'?